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ByBrittney Smart| Published onFeb 12, 2018

If you have yourpergola postsin, yourpergola frame installed，以及您的凉棚lum骨染色，您可能已经准备好通过安装after脚来完成木材凉棚。在本教程中，我们将向您展示如何快速，相对轻松，廉价地安装凉棚ra子，而无需支架。

How to Install Modern Pergola Rafters Without Brackets

Metal bracketsare a popular and excellent material to use when building a pergola. The brackets are graded for outdoor use, and they hold the lumber in place securely and safely. However, because brackets are required for use on each end of each board, they do not provide a clean, modern aesthetic.

Construction isn’t all about aesthetic appeal

当然，施工并不是审美吸引力 - 您希望成品与时尚一样安全。这就是为什么这种方法是双赢的。每个after的安装很快，连接是安全的，它将持续到括号方法……但成本要少得多。

Before you begininstalling your pergola rafters, you’re going to want to find center on your perpendicular frame boards.

How to Install Pergola Rafters - find center on each side of the beamHow to Install Pergola Rafters - find center on each side of the beam

If you have a center beam, as this pergola does, you’ll want to find center on each side of the beam. Unfortunately for us, our center beam boards are a bit bowed. This will be a problem if we try to install rafters to a center beam that’s not straight. So, our first order of business is: straighten the center beam.

在壁挂式框架板上的中心点，我们迅速安装了（临时）螺丝眼。提示：要安装螺丝眼，只需用手将其启动到板上，然后用螺丝刀通过眼睛拧紧。我们之所以选择中心点，是因为我们将首先安装中心afters，一旦眼睛完成工作并将其卸下后，after将完全覆盖螺钉孔。

Once the screw eye is fully secure into the center of the wall-mounted frame, you can hook one end of a ratcheting strap into the screw eye.

How to Install Pergola Rafters-The other end of the ratcheting strap will loop twice

The other end of the ratcheting strap will loop twice (it’s only shown once here, but you’ll want to do twice) around the center beam, just slightly off-center, then hook to itself. Be sure you’re not wrapping the strap around the part of the beam that the rafter needs to connect with.

设置看起来像这样。现在，开始将皮带紧紧划定，这将使中心梁直截了当。您将需要密切观察此中心光束；您不想超越，因为这会导致相反的问题。当您将其拧紧时，不要害怕有点吱吱作响或抱怨木头。

您可以在这里看到中心梁现在如何完全直。

The ratcheting strap will hold the beam until

这是顶部（ISH）视图。棘轮表带将保持光束，直到安装在此处的右侧部分上的第一个after。

Measure, at your center marks, from the inside edge of your frame to the inside edge of your center beam to determine the length of rafter you need. Mark, then cut this length with a miter saw.

You are going to use the HD kreg jig to drill two holes per end on your rafter board. Tip: This is hard to do alone. The jig is going to want to kick out from under you as you drill.

如何安装Pergola Rafters HD Kreg夹具以将其固定在董事会的末端

在HD KREG夹具的尽头，将他/她的脚向上放置一个助手，以将其固定在董事会的尽头。

Press down firmly with one arm as you drill your pocket holes. This secures the HD jig into place, both from the end of your board and onto the face of your board.

How to Install Pergola Rafters Drill two pocket holes

Drill two pocket holes, each about 1” away from the sides of the board, onto each end of your rafter. These pocket holes should share the same face of the board so that one side of your pergola rafters looks like they’re floating.

抓住您的右角kreg夹具，以使您连接到浮动框架的after结束。

At the center mark (these should be marked as lines on the top of your frame boards), with your pocket holes facing the “back” side of your pergola, use the right-angle kreg clamp to hold your rafter board in position. Using HD kreg screws (2-1/2” heavy duty pocket screws that are rated for outdoor use), attach your rafter to the frame.

How to Install Pergola Rafters - screwed in one HD kreg screw

提示：拧入一个高清KREG螺钉后，卸下夹具。使用级别或右角三角形来确定after的垂直线。您可能会感到惊讶的是，它可以从广场上脱颖而出（至少我感到惊讶），具体取决于您的外围视觉中其他因素。向上平整板，然后安装第二个高清袖珍螺钉。

重复第一个中心after的第二侧的过程, making sure everything is square and level and flush.

Hopefully everything will align perfectly

提示:希望一切都将完美结合,布鲁里溃疡t if you have to choose, line up the bottom sides of your rafter + frame boards, as this is what will be visible. The top part of your pergola won’t be all that noticeable, in general. Use a scrap board and hammer to create a flat connection on the bottom ends of your boards, if necessary.

Here is a photo of the first center rafter fully installed. Those HD pocket screws are so strong; this rafter is as sturdy as can be.

还记得您的凉棚如何在其中心梁上附着棘轮皮带吗？拆除此皮带时，我们注意到中心梁仍略微向外推，这也影响了外部框架板的精确直率。因此，为了保持直板直到安装两个中心after板，我们只是将螺丝眼移在中心并重新定位10英寸（在下一个the脚的位置上），然后重复棘轮带附件并拧紧直到一切再次伸直。这使我们可以轻松地将第二个中心r子安装到平方框架和中心梁上。

在这里，已经安装了两个中心after子，并且棘轮表带准备好卸下。

切除皮带后，中心梁完全笔直, which means the outer frame board is straight as well. Everything is square, which is the perfect position from which to move forward in installing the rest of the pergola rafters.

从所有垂直框架的中心标记(including the center beam), we used a simple ruler to mark 10” spaces, as our rafters were to be installed at 10” center-to-center.

You can see, from this “front” view of the pergola, that the rafters are seamlessly connected to the framing. We love the floating, minimalist look, especially when the two-tone pergola provides enough visual activity.

现在安装了中心afters, you will follow these same steps to install the rest of the rafters. Work from the side of the rafter that has the pocket screws for easiest installation.

you can see how all the pocket holes line up

在这里，您可以从一侧看到所有的口袋孔如何对齐。实际上并不是那么引人注目，尤其是凉棚的高度。但是，稍后将需要对口袋孔的内部进行染色，以进行木材保护。

recommend that you install one or two rafters on one side of your center beam

这是“浮动”板条的视图。我们建议您在中心梁的一侧安装一个或两个afters，然后在中心的另一侧切换一两个afters，而不是在凉棚的四分之一中安装所有afters。这将确保一切都保持在线和正轨。

完成从中央r孔的口袋孔侧到外框的after架完成后，您会注意到自己已经完成了。只要在框架板和中心梁的顶部清楚地将after的位置明确标记，您就可以跳到凉棚的顶部，然后开始从外部（朝中心）安装afters。

impossible to install the rafters with the pocket holes on the inside

在内部的口袋孔上安装afters并非不可能（这就是为什么10英寸或更大的间距很重要），但是在更大的气隙提供的更大空间中工作要容易得多。

So don’t feel like you have to work in the direction of center rafter outward. This isn’t necessary. Once the center rafter is installed, do whatever works best for you with the other rafters’ installation direction.

Here, you can see that we’ll eventually have only a 10” air gap to work in on the rafters closest to the center rafter

But for the installation of all other rafters on this second half of the pergola, we’ll have plenty of room to move around in. This is helpful for measuring, marking, fitting the board, leveling it, clamping it, and ultimately screwing it into place.

You’re going to want two people up on ladders, one on each end of your rafter boards, at all times. Because there are no brackets in place, this method requires that one person securely holds one end of the rafter while the other end is being installed. It’s definitely not a one-person installation opportunity.

安装所有a子时，请花一分钟的时间退后一步，享受辛勤工作的结果。

With 2×6 redwood rafters, spaced 10” apart, there is plenty of shading opportunity while still providing a nice view of open sky, which makes pergolas so distinct (and, arguably, preferable) from完全覆盖的露台。

installing the second rafter of each line

确保，当您安装每条线的第二个after时，即使它实际上是两个被中心梁隔开的after，也要对齐after端以创建“直线”线。

If, for some reason, a rafter ends up being installed 1/4” off its center marking (hey, things like this happen in real life, right?), it’s probably more important to try to align the second rafter end with this slightly off-center one, or at least split the difference, than it is to perfectly align the second rafter with the center marking and have a visual “split” between the two halves of your rafter line.

当您将这个直中心梁与弓形比较时, curved original, you will see why it’s so important to get that taken care of from the very beginning of rafter installation. Don’t think that your rafter boards themselves will straighten out a doubled-up center beam.

Later, we will be taking off the tips of the pergola posts and capping them so they don’t swell or split, but for now, the pergola posts extend upward about a foot or so from the top of the pergola. If you like this look, consider your pergola work done.

这个绿廊的深浅不一的自然是我们的一个favorite features. You’ll notice that there are no cross-boards (slats) on top of the rafters, as is sometimes the case with pergolas. This is because we wanted a clean, streamlined, and minimal look forthis contemporary pergola, and the 2×6 rafter size provides plenty of shade potential without having to add another layer of visual busy-ness.

即使对房子e, installed onto the wall-mounted pergola frame, the black and the natural stains look well together.

While two-tone furniture and architecture

尽管两色调的家具和建筑已经存在了很长时间，但今天它与数十年（或更多）过去一样重要。

Of course, a monotone wood pergola is beautiful in its own right as well. In all black, this pergola would make quite the dramatic statement.

所有这些板条，如果它们像凉棚框架一样被染成黑色，至少从某些角度看，它们似乎都是坚固的屋顶。

You can see here the final result of the pocket holesYou can see here the final result of the pocket holes

You can see here the final result of the pocket holes, visible from the back side of the pergola but not terribly noticeable. Much less noticeable than metal brackets would be, which was what we ultimately wanted.